Currently reading
Frackistan: The Promise and Peril of America’s Energy Revolution
Savaging the Dark
The End-of-Life Handbook: A Compassionate Guide to Connecting with and Caring for a Dying Loved One
Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
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Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist's Backstory
Tigers in Red Weather
Witches on the Road Tonight
I'm both enjoyed and disliked this story. The aspects I liked:
-Father/Daughter narratives
-Eddie's story about the time Tucker came to the mountain
-Wallace's story about her time with Jasper as well as her believability as a girl on the verge of young womanhood
The aspects I did not like:
-Contemporary Wallace, both her voice and story
-The lack of resolution with Tucker and Sonia. I didn't need things spelled out but I would have liked to have had them BOTH show up again in Wallace's timeline
-Ann's brief and pointless narrative and the nod to Sonia.
Aspects I should have liked but didn't care about:
-The witchery, both Cora's and Wallace's
-The damned film projector and early Frankenstein movie
-Jasper's story
The reader for Eddie was both good and bad. As old Eddie, he was fantastic. He reads like he's always on his last breath, like he's got to cut sentences short because there is no more air in his lungs. That works for a man dying of cancer. It didn't work nearly so well for a young man having a strange set of experiences in the Appalachians in the '40s or the young Eddie that watched it all transpire.
Wallace's reader was fine. She did a great job bringing precocious and somewhat snotty young Wallace to life. However, even her skills couldn't do anything for contemporary Wallace.